parented

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of parent.

   Their grandmother parented them after the accident left the children orphaned.

   He felt he had parented his younger siblings more than his own father ever did.

   Note

   Two different verbs share this form. One is about raising children: a grandmother parented her grandchildren after a loss. The other is technical: an object is parented when it is given a parent object and becomes that object's child. As a participle it takes have in the perfect and be in the passive. The same spelling also serves the compound adjective of two-parented families.

2. 2
   adjectivein compounds

   With the number or type of parents indicated by the rest of the compound.

   The survey compared two-parented households with single-parented ones across several income brackets.

   Researchers found no meaningful gap in school performance between same-sex-parented and opposite-sex-parented children.

   Note

   Found only as the second half of a hyphenated compound, where the first half supplies the number or kind: two-parented, single-parented, same-sex-parented. It cannot be graded, so nothing is more parented than something else. Take care with well-parented. There the first part describes how a child was raised, so it belongs to the verb of raising and speaks of care rather than family makeup.

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